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Windows 7: Moving the boot manager

I've been dealing with this for a while, and since I'm about to move my computer, I can't have hard drives hanging out the side and stuff, so it's time to get it fixed.

About 6 months ago, I got a new hard drive, and installed windows 7 pro on it. My old hard drive with the win7 ultimate beta was still in the computer, and I guess the installer used the bootmgr from the old hard drive, so whenever I try to disconnect the old hard drive, I get the BootMGR not found, ctrl-alt-del to restart, error message.

I tried startup repair, which did not work- when I disconnect the old hard drive, the installer cannot find any windows installations to repair. I played around with bcdedit, but that was a no go, as I really had no idea what I was doing. I tried to manually copy over the bootmgr file, but it gave me some permission error and didn't let me, which was extremely aggravating, as I was running as an administrator.

And here's the bcdedit.
I really want C: to be stand alone, as D: is currently hanging out and lying on the floor next to my computer. The only thing it's used for is the bootmgr.

There's a couple very easy ways to sort your issue but before we make any specific recommendations will you please post a snip/screen-shot of the entire disk management drive map with a full description as to which drive/partition is which, so we can see what you have going on as there may be a fairly simple way to resolve the situation.

In the Windows start menu right click computer and click manage, in the left pane of the "Computer Management" window that opens click disk management and post a snip of that.

I have a similar issue and hope there's a quick solution. Like the good old days when you could type sys c: - anyhow, my Win 7 install is on c: but somehow the files required to boot wound up on F: I would like to remove the drive containing F: and move all required files to C:

Power down the PC and disconnect all HDDs except the target HDD/SSD, connect that to the #1 SATA port of the motherboard and set it as the second boot device after the CD/DVD drive in the BIOS then boot the Windows 7 installation DVD to do the startup repairs, power down and reconnect the other HDD/SSD leaving C: connected to the same mobo port.

The boot repair functions are all automated in Windows 7 now, no need to run the commands manually.

Apologies for hijacking thread. Thanks all for the advice. Bare Foot kid provided the clue as I had to move the SSD off the Marvell controller before Win 7 Repair console would recognize it. Repaired with only 1 boot!

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